<<On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:09:31 -0700, Bill Fenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> When's the first time the FreeBSD sort(1) man page mentioned that this > syntax was deprecated? Can we at least start from there? It does not appear to have ever been properly documented. I don't object to maintaining backwards compatibility for a few more releases (even if the application writers are the ones at fault), since many more people read the manual pages than read the Standard. However, I would point out that this isn't the first time we broke a traditional syntax in favor of reducing restrictions on argument names: see the recent history of chown(8). -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
